Mountain Preservation

Through iLoveMountains.org, 7 grassroots
organizations from 5 Appalachian states have come together to use cutting edge
technology to inform and involve Americans in their efforts to end mountaintop
removal coal mining .

Keeper of the Mountains Foundation was created
to fund Larry Gibson's efforts to preserve and foster the values of mountain
culture. KOTM also supports his ongoing effort to tell the story of the
destruction of Kayford Mountain and the surrounding community as a result of
mountain top removal.

The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.

Our coalition is a broad-based effort by local and national groups dedicated to stopping the harmful practice of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. Please visit each group's website for more information about how you can help stop mountaintop removal mining.

Black Diamonds charts the escalating drama in Appalachia over the alarming increase in large mountaintop coal mines. These mammoth operations have covered 1200 miles of headwater streams with mining waste; demolished thousands of acres of hardwood forest; and flattened hundred of Appalachian mountain peaks.

An organization of concerned community members and their allies who are working to stop the destruction of our communities by surface coal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities.